What did anne hathaway do for a living 16th century?

Answer 1

The 16th century Anne Hathaway (who lived well into the 17th century) was the wife of William Shakespeare the famous playwright and poet. While Shakespeare was living and working in London, Anne was living in Stratford, where their home was, looking after the children, keeping the house and trying to make ends meet. Early in Shakespeare's career, when he was struggling to earn a living, this must have been a difficult job. Later he was making more money and more steadily, and bought them a huge new house (called New Place) in Stratford. Of course looking after the big house was just that much more work for Anne. It is possible that Anne also supplemented William's income with cottage industries as many wives did, but we have no direct evidence of this.